Campion Homes wants to extend the town’s north-eastern boundary with the development planned for land off Cupar Road.

The planning application won the support of Fife Council officers, who recommended it be approved.

Members of the central area planning committee unanimously approved the proposal on Wednesday.

The houses approved were a mixture of two, three, four and five-bedroom detached, semi-detached and terraced villas. Ten of the new houses will be classed as affordable.

The development will be part of an ambition to provide 1,750 new homes across Levenmouth as the council bids to kick-start regeneration and investment.

Derek Simpson, lead officer, development management, Fife Council, said: “This major development to the north east of Leven was approved by councillors. Members of Fife’s central area planning committee gave their support to Campion Homes’ proposal for 100 new homes just off Cupar road. The application was unanimously approved by the committee.”

Previous plans for housing on the site, which sits behind existing houses on Largo Road, have twice been shelved as the area was not zoned for residential use in the local plan.

Barratt Homes applied to build an unspecified number of homes on the land in 2008, four years after a previous plan for 300 houses was dropped from the Levenmouth local plan.